to read you -

          You ...

                               are a mystery, a spellbinding novel,
                       each new chapter more enigmatic than the last.
                I read you with my fingertips,
           pausing to regard the inches, to savor each,
       like a meaty word that I turn over in my thoughts,
    in careful consideration ... of its flavor.
  With the gentle brush of my palm,
 one precious span of your opaline flesh is added unto the next,
inch linked to dynamic inch ...
like the flowing, voltaic sentences of a master wordsmith.
The journey of each phrase of your contours
 bespeaks to my core a torrid tale of longing, pure ...
  a hunger to delve ever further into the sultry, shapely, sinewy saga
    that your alluring body whispers to me -
       whispers and sighs, with its subtle, spicy shivers:
           to realize the destination of this epic journey,
                to unravel the mysterious and beguiling narrative
                       that your anatomy conveys to my core,
                               the sublime, licentious and seductive story that 


is You.






Copyright © Gregory R Barden, December 16, 2016

~ 1st Place ~  in the "Mid November 2018 Any Form Or None" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.

~ 3rd Place ~  in the "Mid December Premiere" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.

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Line Gauthier

Date: 1/7/2018 8:59:00 PM

Sublime. Congrats on your well deserved win, Gregory.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 1/7/2018 9:18:00 PM

Many kind thanks to you, Line, I so appreciate your comments! :-) <3

Jean Murray

Date: 12/13/2017 1:37:00 PM

Congratulations my friend. The die hard romantic in you speaks to mine. I still believe in such a deep connection, although modern day has made it a myth.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 1/7/2018 9:17:00 PM

I still believe in it, Jean, and there are a few other "die-hards" out there ... still. Perhaps if we keep writing about it, the new generations will hunger for it and keep it alive. That is my hope ... a lost art, for sure, but not completely forgotten as yet! Thank you for you wonderful comment, Dear Friend! :-) <3

Neil Mcleod

Date: 5/11/2017 3:19:00 PM

Delightfully urgent with out a trace of smut. Elegantly conceived.

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 7/23/2017 10:28:00 AM

Thank you kindly, Neil, I greatly appreciate those kind words ... I personally don't care for reading OR writing anything that doesn't have a semblance of class and dignity to it. I find ambiguity and inference MUCH more sexy than graphic sexuality. Thanks again, my friend!